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It’s the Little Things: Command Line Improvements to Mac OS X

Written on May 21, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 7 people have commented

Recently, two articles appeared on TechRadar documenting various command line tweaks for various apps and functions of Mac OS X. While I didn’t find anything new there, it’s nice to have two articles that summarize a bunch instead of tracking them down one by one across countless bookmarks.
To be honest, most command line tweaks don’t [...]

Getting A Handle On Your iPhone Data (A Mini-Tales From The Command Line Story)

Written on August 20, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 1 person has commented

The past two weeks have been fairly hectic, with little time to deal with anything but security updates to software (hence, no software update news). This week, however, my iPhone needed some serious care and feeding as it was taking forever to load up the SMS screens since I have saved most every SMS I [...]

Tales From The Command Line: What’s Going On? (lsof)

Written on August 01, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 5 people have commented

As mentioned in the previous installment, there is a very useful command buried deep within the confines of your OS X terminal. This command – lsof (LiSt Open Files) – is like the Swiss Army knife of utilities, proving information on files, directories, volumes and even what is happening on the network. Unlike iftop, lsof [...]

Tales From The Command Line: Where Has My Bandwidth Gone? (iftop & SurplusMeter)

Written on July 03, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 11 people have commented

I believe I can safely say that the primary objective for users running OS X is to connect to the Internet to read mail, check out web sites, chat with friends, download new apps or grab/share multi-media content, etc. With bandwidth caps staring to become all the rage by the mega-providers, knowing how much you [...]